Bihar election results: Tejashwi Yadav’s grand alliance takes early lead over Nitish Kumar’s NDA

The grand alliance led by Tejashwi Yadav made a propitious starting in early leads as counting of votes for the Bihar meeting elections began at Eight am on Tuesday at centres throughout the state. Tejashwi Yadav has been fronting the opposition offensive towards Nitish Kumar who has been Bihar’s chief minister for 14 of the final years and is the face of the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) marketing campaign.

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In very early tendencies, based on counting knowledge offered by C Voter, the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led alliance is main in 46 Bihar meeting seats as towards the NDA which is forward in about 25 seats at 8:35 am. There shall be many extra rounds of counting of votes within the bitterly-fought elections to the 243-member meeting.

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The early tendencies are according to projections by most exit polls that predicted the 31-year-old, who has emerged from the shadow of his father and RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav within the 2020 elections, might halt Nitish Kumar’s juggernaut. This is the primary election that Tejashwi has led his occasion into the state election on his personal since father Lalu Prasad Yadav is serving time for the fodder rip-off.

Nitish Kumar, who has been Bihar chief minister for over 14 years, gained the 2015 meeting election in alliance with RJD however switched sides in 2017 when he pole vaulted from the grand alliance with the RJD and Congress into the BJP’s workforce. Nitish Kumar had then painted Tejashwi Yadav because the villain, attributing his choice to dump the RJD to corruption instances towards deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav.

Back then, Nitish Kumar and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had hoped to sew collectively a successful mixture in 2020. But over the following three years, the NDA in Bihar first misplaced Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) in 2018 and nearer to the state elections, Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), over variations with Nitish Kumar and his occasion. To make sure, Chirag Paswan has made it clear that his occasion nonetheless helps the BJP on the Centre.

It is Nitish Kumar that he had an issue with. And to get again to him, Chirag Paswan’s occasion fielded candidates on 137 seats, principally higher castes in constituencies allotted to the JD(U) to chip away on the NDA’s assist base. Exit polls have indicated that Chirag Paswan’s technique might value the JD(U) dearly in about two dozen constituencies.